Fifty Beating Wonders Launch: Michelle Johnston in conversation
Wed, 11 Nov
|Better Read Than Dead
Join us for an evening talk celebrating the launch of 'Fifty Beating Wonders' by Michelle Johnston!
Time & Location
11 Nov 2026, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia
About The Event
About The Book:
Like When Breath Becomes Air, Being Mortal and The Emperor of All Maladies, Fifty Beating Wonders is a stunning book about the magnificent complexity of the human body and the miracle of being human. It is absorbing, uplifting, moving and celebratory - a wonder indeed.
The Emergency Department - loud, chaotic and heaving with broken bodies - seems an unlikely place to find marvelment. But what if there was a seam of joy, of wonder, of fascination running through it and all you had to do was notice? Because, sometimes, the antidote to trauma, to horror, is ... wonder.
Fifty Beating Wonders is a book about the marvels and majesty of the human body from the point of view of an Emergency Physician who has spent the past thirty-five years with her hands and her own heart dedicated to trying to fix those bodies when they come in broken. It…
Tickets
General Admission
$10.00
+$0.25 ticket service fee
General Admission + Book
$46.99
+$1.17 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00